The Crudest of Mistakes

Shortly before the Russian Revolution of 1917, Sir Bernard Pares looked forward to the end of the Great War and the opportunity for England to build mutually beneficial economic ties with her wartime ally Russia. He feared, however, that like Germany we might use our economic dominance only to exploit Russia’s resources for ourselves, with the same disastrous consequences.

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